Wednesday, October 01, 2008

One more year

There's something different about the age 27, in my mind. 27 seems a lot older than 26. It's officially late 20s. By 27 you expect people to be well on their way to accomplishing things. Uni days left far behind and getting into their careers. My brothers were married and buying houses by this age. Not that I don't feel that I've accomplished enough but there's a certain extra level of self expectation now.

Anyway... that's my round-about way of saying that today is my birthday :) Just like any ordinary work day (I was spoilt by having my birthday always fall on school holidays) but I'm looking forward to Mum & Dad's this evening and my favourite 'hotpot' for dinner :)

Have a wondeful birthday. Thus far I think 30 was the best year. It felt like, wow, I'm a grown up, but still cool, and people can see me as a woman of the world. I am 34 now and not sure about the mid-30s and looming late 30s thing. I'm cool with it, it just takes some getting used to.

27 - oh so young. I have 5 years on you, just wait to you reach 32! Hope you had a happy Birthday. As for having achieved things, with Ink and Spindle just around the corner, I would say this year will definitely be a year of achievements!

I agree, you have definitely accomplished a lot already. Selling your own fabrics, and you are in the midst of opening a printing shop too!

Think of how many girls dream of being able to do just one of those things someday, many of them older than you. But I know it can be hard to think of our jobs as special sometimes, it is just what we do every day!

Happy birthday, may the patterns reveal something magical for you this year.

27 is great, wait till you hit your thirties :) And be grateful that you don't work in education - we just got a fresh batch on first year students today and it was, as always, an "oldifying" experience.

Happy Birthday! I remember 27, although it was a long time ago. The emotions you describe are exactly what I felt at that age. I have to say it was one of my most difficult birthdays. I just turned 50 last month, and to tell you the truth, it was a piece of cake in comparison. I hope that you know nothing stays the same and life is good!!Susan

HBD 2 You! Gosh, and I thought that I was supposed to start acting like an adult now that I'm 35. Sheesh! You've got some sky high expectations there. I think at least until you're 30, you need to do nothing except have fun all the time. Paying the house payment is fun and all...don't get me wrong. ;)

It's all relative. Which is to say, age is relatively irrelevant. I thought I was too old to learn guitar when I was 18 because I had friends who'd started when they were 9 and 12 and were already so good.

We have friends who are in their late 30s who still aren't sure what they want to do with their lives, who they want to spend them with or where they want to live. Elle MacPherson is still hot at she's 44 for Godsakes!

So long as you take relatively good care of yourself you've got heeeuuuuge amounts of time left (as far as you know - rogue buses and trams notwithstanding). One of the good things about getting older is you start to get this base of cumulative experience going - not expertise or knowledge per se, but a much better intuitive feel for what to do at certain points, a better knack for evaluating risk and an ability to nod knowingly, bite tongues and scratch chins with authenticity. It's good.

Take it as it comes and live each age well, they're all slightly different. I don't care terribly for expectations or life deadlines assigned to age.